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Abbott, Megan, 130 absolutism, 58–59 absurdity: and black sexuality, 141– 142; and ethnography, 126–152; racism portrayed as, 132; and violence, 129 Accompong, Jamaica, 51, 180n78 African Americans. See headings starting with “black” Afro-Asian solidarity, 70 agency, 53, 55, 90, 92, 130 All God’s Chillun Got Wings (O’Neill), 27 An American Dilemma (Myrdal), 185n10 American Hunger (Wright), xii, 61–62 American nationalism: and black separatism, 68, 155–156; and colonialism, 55; and ethnography, 25–26; in Hurston’s works, 47, 49; and internationalism, 76 Andrews, William, 181–182n18 Another Country (Baldwin), 13, 97, 99, 103–120 anthropology. See ethnography anticolonialism. See decolonization movement antinationalism, 10 Arab culture, 190n43 Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Malinowski), 99, 100–101, 174n9 arrival narratives, 4, 13, 93–94 authenticity, 15, 22, 30–31, 34, 44, 52. See also realism autobiography: Baldwin, 95, 96, 98; Himes, 132; Hurston, 23; Wright, 58, 60, 62 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Johnson), 181–182n18 autoethnographic resistance, 121–125 autonomy, 92 Baker, Houston, 19, 21, 22, 28, 53–54, 66 Baker, Lee, 98 Baldwin, James, 91–125; and autoethnographic resistance, 121–125; and Black Power Movement, 170; Cleaver’s critique of, 158; as cultural translator, 5; ethnographic techniques used by, 4, 6, 13; on living outside U.S., 1, 8; love and sexuality themes of, 103–120; Mailer’s friendship with, 186n38; national and international narrative spaces for, 7, 170–171; Index 206 / index and A Rap on Race, 1–3; on Wright, xi. See also specific works by title Bandung Asian-African Conference (1955), 69–78 Baraka, Amiri, 153, 155, 156, 171 Barnard College, 23–24, 176n9 Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame (Stockton), 124 Bell, Kevin, 133 Bersani, Leo, 120 Black, Shameem, 53 The Black Aesthetic (Gayle), 68, 156 Black Arts Movement, 5, 14, 129, 157–158 The Black Atlantic (Gilroy), 58 Black Boy (Wright), 58, 60–61, 62–63 “The Black Boy Looks at the White Body” (Baldwin), 186n38 black determinism, 155–156 black diaspora: narrative space for, 7–8, 9; overlapping of, 82; Wright’s framing of, 78–90 black folk culture: adaptability of, 35; dynamic nature of, 26–27, 43–44; and modernity, 17; and performance, 34–43; and primitivism, 20, 21 “black is beautiful” mantra, 164–165 black modernity: and Caribbean communities, 47–57; Great Migration as flight to, 17, 19, 44; in Hurston’s works, 25; intraracial view of, 79–90; and performance, 36–43; and regionalism, 66; and slavery, 46. See also black rural modernity black nationalism: and Black Power Movement, 170; and Caribbean communities, 51; and cultural translation, 129; and freedom, 61, 161, 164; and gender, 54; national unease over, 95; and Third World solidarity, 171 Black Power (Wright), 12–13, 60, 70–71, 78–90, 158 Black Power Movement: and black nationalism, 170; Kerner Report on, 154–155; literary and social importance of, 14, 157–158; masculinization of, 162, 165, 169, 192n27 black radical consciousness, 109 black rural modernity: duality of, 30, 42; ethnography of, 17; and migration, 19, 21, 29; and racial violence, 29; and regionalism, 43–47. See also black modernity black separatism, 68, 155–156 black sexuality: and Fire!! magazine, 32–33; and heteronormativity, 32, 162–163; hypersexualization, 166–167. See also sexuality black writers: as cultural translators, 4, 5, 129; and ethnography, 2; mobility of, 5–6. See also specific writers Blind Man with a Pistol (Himes), 13–14, 130, 134, 141–142, 146–147 “Blueprint for Negro Writing” (Wright), 67, 69 Boas, Franz, 17, 21, 24–25, 38–39, 176n9 Book-of-the-Month Club, 62 Breu, Christopher, 131, 151 Brodhead, Richard, 65 Brown, Sterling, 3 Brown v. Board of Education (1954), 133, 153 Cane (Toomer), 33, 178n39 Carby, Hazel, 29, 163 Caribbean, 17, 47–57 Carmichael, Stokely, 158 “Celebration” (Wright), 89 celibacy in ethnography, 102 Certeau, Michel de, 137 Césaire, Aimé, 70 Chandler, Raymond, 189n21 Chesnutt, Charles, 65 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 153 Civil Rights Movement, 6, 89, 95, 192n27 Cleaver, Eldridge, 158 Clifford, James, 175n15, 183n39 Cohen, William, 105–106 [54.90.167.73] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:33 GMT) index / 207 Collins, Lisa, 155, 165 colonialism: and cultural hierarchies, 100; and ethnography, 19, 55, 165–166; and freedom, 81; in Hurston’s work, 180n76. See also decolonization movement The Color Curtain (Wright), 7, 12–13, 60, 63, 70–78, 79 Communist Party, 67–68, 69, 79 contestation: and cultural production, 17; and knowledge production, 111–112; performance as stage for, 34 corruption of...